Loewe visits Leather Cluster Barcelona

On Friday 25 March, a delegation from the Loewe brand visited Leather Cluster Barcelona in order to discover and experience for a day the leather ecosystem of Igualada through a visit to the museums, tanneries, water treatment plant and the cluster's headquarters.

With more than 175 years of history, Loewe has created a unique space where fashion and art meet, building an iconic brand with values always associated with quality and excellence. Loewe represents the exclusivity of the finest leathers through design and innovation. Its designs reveal the mastery with which Loewe's leather craftspeople work the highest quality hides.

The Loewe group that visited the cluster was made up of professionals from the Passeig de Gràcia store in Barcelona and from its global training department.

Through this training activity at the cluster, the Loewe team was able to enjoy the unique leather theme park offered by Leather Cluster Barcelona, through active learning that combines guided tours with master classes given by qualified trainers from different fields.

An experience for enjoying the world of leather as a whole, with touches of craftsmanship, culture, industry, gastronomy and sustainability.

The Loewe professionals, who were highly participative throughout the day, rated the training experience very positively, stressing that the theoretical and practical knowledge acquired can help to add value in meeting the needs of Loewe's exclusive and select customers.

In its training programmes, Leather Cluster Barcelona conveys a tradition and know-how of 900 years of history in the world of leather, integrating practical and theoretical knowledge in order to gain a good understanding of the origin, history, evolution and transformation process of leather. Training aimed at the workers of all kinds of companies in the leather industry value chain and at professionals of national and international brands in the fashion sector and in high-quality leather articles and accessories.

Leather Clúster Barcelona is an environment of competitive cooperation for promoting cross-cutting, transformative strategic projects with the aim of driving the ecosystem of the leather sector. The cluster is an entity accredited under the Catalonia Clústers programme and is supported by Acció.

Committed to sustainable fashion, the circular economy and shared value, Leather Cluster Barcelona brings together 55 companies and stakeholders with a combined turnover of more than 550 million euros that employ some 1,800 workers, from livestock farming and the food industry, tanneries, university and research, through to chemistry, sustainability, design, leather manufacturing and fashion.